After recently completing a prison sentence, Odel Roberts, 19, was yesterday charged with the murder of Sophia shopkeeper Shawn Anys, who was shot dead in front of his children when bandits invaded his home over two months ago. Roberts, of Lot 124 ‘C’ Field, Sophia, was not required to plead to the charge when he appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 2.
But the unrepresented Roberts denied the charge after it was read to him. “My worship, I don’t know nothing. I don’t even know who is this man they say I murder and I just came out of jail,” he told the court.
Roberts was brought before the court previously for robbery and